1. Researcher, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt (corresponding author).
2. President, General Incorporated Association FLIP Consortium, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-0844, Japan; Former Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji 611-0011 Japan.
3. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Sherbrooke Univ., Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R1.